Looking Like The Real Thing

Inspired by 20 year-old me. About the unattainable love interest who's with someone else and that defeated feeling you have when you see them together. The "bad man" was probably a perfectly nice guy!
Just me and Gavin the drummer :)

V1
Not much more that I can do
I just wanna get through to you
I’ve got nothing left to say
Pack my things and go away
I try to see your point of view
But there’s a bad man standing next to you

V2
You don’t know what you put me through
I just wanna get close to you
Feel like I’ve been washed ashore
I can’t do this anymore
I try to see your point of view
Bad man standing next to you

BRIDGE
I couldn’t help myself
You were looking like the real thing
I had to stop myself
Stop myself
I’d get down on my knees
But you know my skin is thin
Looking like the real thing
You were looking like the real thing

V3
You with him that makes me blue
I just gotta get close to you
One day you might understand
I just wanna be your man
I try to see your point of view
Bad man standing next to you

Bad man standing next to you
Bad man standing next to you
Bad man standing next to you
Bad man standing next to you
Bad man standing next to you
Bad man standing next to you

Looking Like The Real Thing
Like the growly bass tone. Great drums ... especially the snare tone.
Great playing all around ... nice use of delay on the lead and some cool playing ... like the octaves.Total pro production and a great song!
Good one Neil

Funny how...
...we never forget.
Nice swirling sound going on here with the organ floating in the background and the almost-tuneless tune just kind of drives into one's head and won't go away...sort of like the intent of the lyrics. You've got a few harmonic elements in the song, but you guys improv them for all they're worth. Very cool number.

The Real Thing
Hey Neil - cool song, and a familiar story I think we all can relate to in one way or another. How many of us haven't met the girl (or guy) of our dreams, only to find that they are already someone else's girl (or guy) of THEIR dreams? Enjoyed this one, my friend - thanks!
Sig

Looking Like The Real Thing
In reality the music is probably too cool and sophisticated for a 20 year old you, Neil :-) Mature, contemporary R&B. In the words of the immortal Chad Morgan. "If only I could go back then and know what I know now...". You win her back for sure, now! Fine post. Take care.

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Rhythm and blues (or R&B) was coined as a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Jerry Wexler at Billboard magazine, used to designate upbeat popular music performed by African American artists that combined jazz